Code reviews, as one of the tenets of Extreme Programming (X.P.), are fully embraced by our team. Code is never merged directly to either the development or master branches. It means that all code deployed to either staging or production servers have gone through several layers of human checks

Kudos to you, person who contributed to a Ruby repository. I am actually thankful that you did not just create an issue but you actually tried to solve the problem by creating a Pull Request. Now my job, is 10x easier since I don’t have to stop the other things that I am trying to do

I mean, in the widest possible sense, you are. Your mere existence is bound to change some of it somewhat. But that’s not what the unironic use of the phrase — WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD — is meant to convey in Silicon Valley. They’re actually serious